Old Blue Eyes

7/30/08 12:34 am
roxy: (snoopy no write by cunning_croft.)
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I have big bits of a story to cut and rewrite. Sometimes you don't notice how wrong a story is going until you read someone else's. I was reading a story tonight--a very good one, very different--and even though it had nothing in common with the fic I'm working on, I had this light bulb moment reading it. I was admiring the way the writer introduced us to the characters in a particular scene when suddenly a scene I've been having trouble with popped into my head and I knew, it had to die. Too much, too soon, wrong actions for the character. It's interesting, but not my guy. So--poop. I have some hacking away to do.

And don't ask what it was--I am like a clam. Or maybe a scallop. Aren't they the ones with the hundreds of little blue eyes? Not that I have blue eyes. Or hundreds of little eyeballs either. Ew. Bet I wouldn't have to wait in any lines if I did though. I'd just blink and blink and blink and blink and blink and blink and...Well, you get my drift. Folks would leap out of my way. But I would only use the power of my teeny, tiny eyeballs for good. I would be Teeny Tiny Blue Eyeball Woman. With a bright blue uniform, and lots and lots of itty bitty sunglasses--bedtime? Is it that late all ready? Well, okay....

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7/30/08 05:06 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rosy5000.livejournal.com
hehehe Well, I'll be going to bed with a smile on my face and a giggle in my heart (or maybe just stuck in my throat-don't want to scare the family too much).

*huggles you*

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7/30/08 09:49 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com
Heeee! *Shmooooch*

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7/30/08 06:19 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jakrar.livejournal.com
Of course, if you did have all those teeny, tiny eyeballs, just think how much you'd have to spend on eye drops! Or contacts. Or the aforementioned sunglasses....

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7/30/08 09:49 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com
Omgosh, really! So many eyeballs....

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7/30/08 03:09 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] tabaqui
*snickers madly*
OMG.

:)

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7/30/08 09:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com
It was late...*G*

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7/30/08 04:42 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] kaydee23.livejournal.com
I'm going to have to mull over your possible makeover. I sort of like it, and I sort of don't. I'll let you know;)

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7/30/08 09:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com
You think the blue contacts might be a little much? Granted, I might need a little lip balm too....

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7/31/08 11:01 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] emeraldsedai.livejournal.com
How I enjoy your posts about writing!

I have had, and loved, the experience you're talking about--not the blue-eyed clam thing, but the writing epiphany coming from someone else's very different writing. It's a great feeling, once I get over the envy and insecurity that someone else's very different and very good writing brings out in my writerly ego.

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7/31/08 11:32 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com
Thank you! Great big weird rambling posts that they are...*G*

It's a great feeling, once I get over the envy and insecurity that someone else's very different and very good writing brings out in my writerly ego.

Yes, exactly! Once I get over the feeling that I stink on ice, I think about how I can apply what I learned to my story telling. Sometimes it never makes it to the page, but it's in my brain, waiting to be used.

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